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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · May 30

(@ junior researchers you should definitely read those)

Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · May 30

Tomas is not on social media, so rare to meet a true superstar who stays away from spotlights, all the noise and just focused on doing solid work. Discussions with him were so refreshing and enlightening. A true visionary ... AI research needs more people like this!

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · May 30

Had the great pleasure this week visiting @mbzuai for the trustworthy foundation models symposium where I spoke alongside the brilliant and humble Tomas Mikolov 😍 Tomas is a true pioneer who invented word2vec, RNNLLM toolkit and other works without which Transformers might not have emerged this fast

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · May 16

I had the great pleasure to contribute to the Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research report with the presence of *Josephine Teo*, the Minister for Digital Development and Information of Singapore 🤩🤩
🔗 Read the paper: aisafetypriorities.org

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Apr 30

SUPER thrilled that our #NAACL2025 paper got the runnerup BEST paper award 😍😍🏆🏆🏆🚀🚀
We show that people rely 30% more on LLMs when they use emphatic expressions (eg "Sure, happy to help") even though the answer is wrong and 10% more when the task involves math questions 😵

📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07950

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Apr 17

⭐️(Poster) WildBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Challenging Tasks from Real Users in the Wild:
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2406.04770
⏰Th, Apr 24, 04:00 CEST

⭐️(Poster) Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction:
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2410.08134
⏰Th, Apr 24, 04:00 CEST

AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has raised questions about ...

arxiv.org

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Apr 17

⭐️(Oral) AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text:
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2410.04265
⏰ Fr, Apr 25, 05:06 CEST

AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has raised questions about ...

arxiv.org

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Apr 17

So excited about #ICLR2025 and Singapore!! will be there next week and will be presenting 3 papers:
1 Oral 😍 and 2 posters ⭐️
So excited also about our **LLM Reasoning** workshop, so many cool papers and a stellar lineup of speakers😍
workshop-llm-reasoning-planning.github.io
Details: 👇

ICLR 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Models

workshop-llm-reasoning-planning.github.io

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Apr 1

Super excited to be speaking at the #icml2025 on Computer Use Agents this summer in Vancouver 🇨🇦 alongside a stellar lineup of speakers!

⏰Submit your work by *May 18, 2025*
📄https://icml-computeruseagents.com

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm also desperately looking for emergency reviewers for safety, bias, and alignment papers. Please let me know if you could write a review! 😭

Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Mar 27

I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Mar 27

I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks to Jekaterina Novikova and Malikeh Ehghaghi for inviting me. This is a wonderful initiative to encourage females to pursue a career in STEM.

Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Mar 13

I had so much fun in this podcast 💗 I talked about:
🧪 My research journey
💡 The limits and constraints of large language models
🤯 The AI complexity/generative paradox
🧠 Challenges in model reasoning

Listen here
Youtube: lnkd.in/gseDzxyt
Spotify: lnkd.in/gn6QMdcZ

#WomenInAI #AIResearch

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Kaitlyn Zhou @ COLM @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · Feb 19

Excited to have two papers at #NAACL2025!
The first reveals how human over-reliance can be exacerbated by LLM friendliness. The second presents a novel computational method for concept tracing. Check them out!

arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07950

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05704

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 27

Currently in the phase of chasing reviewers and dealing with tight deadlines🥲. If you have the bandwidth, I would greatly appreciate your help in reviewing Demo papers for NAACL 2025 (6 pages).

Please fill in this form: forms.office.com/r/W3gTbhttTD

Deadline: Feb 1st

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · Jan 23

Yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I joined a constructive discussion on AGI alongside @andrewyng.bsky.social, @yejinchoinka.bsky.social, @jonathan-ross.bsky.social , @thomwolf.bsky.social and moderator @nxthompson.bsky.social. Full discussion here: www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thanks to our speakers:
@nicolaschapados.bsky.social
@daniel-fried.bsky.social
@chrmanning.bsky.social
@sivareddyg.bsky.social
@yusu-agent.bsky.social
Tao Yu and Roberta Raileanu

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 23

Got ideas to share and want to learn about the latest progress?

Consider submitting your work! 🔗https://realm-workshop.github.io

Organizers:
@shikharmurty.bsky.social @ehsk0.bsky.social @xhluca.bsky.social @alex-lacoste.bsky.social @hanna-nlp.bsky.social @gneubig.bsky.social

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 23

“AI Agents” is a hot topic this year, but key issues remain such as reliability, generalization and robustness. How can we make progress towards these issues?

REALM’25 aims to bring researchers and practitioners interested in instruction-following grounded agents.

#ACL2025NLP

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 23

Interested in knowing more about LLMs agents and in contributing to this topic?🚀

📢We're thrilled to announce REALM: The first Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models 🤖 #ACL2025NLP in Vienna 🎻
We have an exciting lineup of speakers

🗓️ Submit your work by *March 1st*
@aclmeeting.bsky.social

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Jan 17

Reasoning, search & planning are trending these days so I'm thrilled to announce our #ICLR2025 Workshop on LLMs Reasoning and Planning to answer your most burning questions with our exciting lineup of speakers 🔥

⏰ Submit your work by Feb 2nd
📄 Details: tinyurl.com/33mxwvs2

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Dec 17

📣 We’re looking for additional reviewers for the NAACL Demo track to review up to 3 papers. The papers are short (6 pages) and fun/entertaining to read as they include videos

Please submit your interest here:
forms.office.com/r/W3gTbhttTD

⏰ Review start: Dec 19th, 2024
🔚 Review due: Jan 24th, 2025

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Dec 16

The papers presented were also so rich so please check them out. A huge thanks to everyone who attended and to my amazing co-organizers:

Watch video: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Dec 16

Francois Chollet talked about the lessons learnt from the ARC-AGI benchmark, test-time training, how to get LLM to adapt to novelty, etc

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Dec 16

Jason Weston talked about self-training methods for equipping LLMs with System2 reasoning

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